About This Book
A traveler's account of the lower Mississippi and Natchez area records river scenery and steamboat life, approaching town descriptions and street scenes, and detailed portraits of local institutions such as banks, churches, hotels, theaters, and cemeteries. It documents commerce and fashion, auctions including the sale of enslaved people, planter households and their attendants, religious observance and Sabbath routines, public health concerns, and contrasts between northern and southern habits. Interspersed reflections consider regional character, race relations, and the everyday manners of town and country.
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